Word: terrorism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Egypt and Canada. "Let them see the terror we have made," said spread-eagle Major George Fielding Eliot in the New York Herald Tribune. "Let the atomic fires which we shall loose above Bikini set alight the spiritual fires of a common and deathless purpose which shall burn forever upon the altars of a world at peace...
Rumpled Cordiality. The cards were put face up. Curtly but calmly Vishinsky spoke of "the new outbreak of Fascist terror" in Greece and the use of British troops there as "a danger to peace and security." As mild in manner, Bevin was even rougher in words. In Greece, he said, Britain "could have done as was done in Rumania by Mr. Vishinsky-put in a minority government. . . . The danger to the peace of the world has been the incessant propaganda from Moscow against the British Commonwealth and the incessant utilization of the Communist Parties in every country in the world...
Stenia was 23, but she had lived a lifetime of terror. She was a left-winger, a militiawoman, a veteran of the resistance and of Gestapo torture. The Nazis had knocked out two of her front teeth; now, when she smiled, she showed shiny, stainless-steel replacements...
Britain's Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin told a tense House of Commons last week that terror had become an instrument of national policy in the new Poland. Many members of Vice Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk's Polish Peasant Party who opposed the Communist-dominated Warsaw Government had been murdered. "Circumstances in many cases appear to point to the complicity of the Polish Security Police. ... I regard it as imperative that the Polish Provisional Government should put an immediate stop to these crimes in order that free and unfettered elections may be held as soon as possible, in accordance with...
...Terror in Poland was the work of agents sent in by General Wladyslaw Anders, commander of the British-financed Polish Army in Exile. British taxpayers were footing the bill for the murders. Polish Communists (900) and Socialists (250) had been killed, as well as Peasant Party members. (A Briton commented that it was curious solace for the Peasant Party to know that everybody was being murdered...